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Montrealers, do (most) planes at Trudeau airport land and take off towards the South-West? That would put it over the water, so the noise wouldn't be as bad.

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theit8514@lemmy.world
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Some locations have very variable wind conditions so an airport may have runways in many different directions. For example, Wittman where they have Oshkosh has 4 runways in all different directions. http://img.airnav.com/aptdiag/w240/02539.gif?v=OY0UYO

Larger airports typically like to have more traffic throughput by having many parallel runways, like Atlanta which has all 5 runways facing east/west. This means planes may have to take off/land in crosswind conditions, which is not ideal but can be done. https://img.airnav.com/aptdiag/w240/02655.gif?v=Q88169

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corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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I have landed at ATL in a storm. I can confirm the first two points and the fact I can do so today confirms the last – but it was a bit of a code-brown!

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